Definizione monolingua

analogy

analogy (plural analogies)

1. A relationship of resemblance or equivalence between two situations, people, or objects, especially when used as a basis for explanation or extrapolation.
   • 1841, Ralph Waldo Emerson, Essays: First Series, ch. 6:

     Yet the systole and diastole of the heart are not without their analogy in the ebb and flow of love.

   • 1869, Charles Dickens, The Uncommercial Traveller, ch. 18:

     Is there any analogy, in certain constitutions, between keeping an umbrella up, and keeping the spirits up?

   • 1901, Edith Wharton, The Valley of Decision, ch. 12:

     The old analogy likening the human mind to an imperfect mirror, which modifies the images it reflects, occurred more than once to Odo.

   • 1983, ""How to Write Programs,"" Time, 3 Jan.:

     Perhaps the easiest way to think of it is in terms of a simple analogy: hardware is to software as a television set is to the shows that appear on it.

   • 2002, Harlan Coben, Gone for Good, ISBN 9780440236733, p. 75:

     A kid living on the street is a bit like — and please pardon the analogy here — a weed.

Definizione dizionario analogy

	analogia
	relationship of resemblance or equivalence
	The use of a similar example or model to explain or extrapolate from.

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Altri significati:

(biological) analogy

A relationship of resemblance or equivalence between two situations, people, or objects, especially when used as a basis for explanation or extrapolation.